- A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations. ~ Kathie Lee Gifford
- A known mistake is better than an unknown truth. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
- A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown. ~ William Harvey
- Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man. ~ John Fowles
- Design is an unknown. ~ Geoffrey Beene
- Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear. ~ Joan D. Vinge
- It is better to exist unknown to the law. ~ Irish Proverb
- It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. ~ Wallace Stevens
- Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known. ~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- The highway is always shorter than the unknown side roads. ~ Turkish Proverb
- The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown. ~ Rene Magritte
- There is no cure for an unknown illness. ~ Myanmar Proverb
- There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. ~ Elias Canetti
- When dealing with the unknown, children are often bewildered by the fact that their parents do not know all the answers. ~ Edgar N. Jackson
- When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly. ~ Patrick Overton
- You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject — the actual enemy is the unknown. ~ Thomas Mann
- You cannot worship an unknown saint. ~ Mexican Proverb
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